As we all know, the AI industry is based on a shaky legal basis. Companies like Openai have already built billions of dollars in business amid a massive amount of training data, most of which comes from copyrighted content. The creators of these contents know they were deprived, which increasingly led to lawsuits. We also reminded this week of this conundrum, when Reddit used Redditors’ posts to sue humans in training data.
Reddit’s lawsuit was filed on Wednesday, accusing the Amazon-backed AI company of violating its user agreement. “As early as December 2021, there was already – no authorization and direct violation of Reddit’s user agreement – granting Claude to Reddit users training,” the lawsuit said.
Anthropic’s flagship product is AI Chatbot Claude, who tries to position himself as the “good guy” in the AI industry, the company adheres to rules and advances AI frameworks that are thoughtful for security and ethical considerations. But despite the company’s “White Knight” PR, the company has repeatedly encountered legal issues that put its so-called “ethical” business into practice. This week’s lawsuit reminds this again.
The lawsuit accuses humans of unjustly enriching themselves while violating the platform’s user agreement. The lawsuit claims that AI company’s robots have visited the website 100,000 times since 2024.
“This situation is about two faces of humanity: attempting to integrate themselves into the consumer’s consciousness with just and respect for boundaries and laws, and ignoring any private face that ignores any rules that attempt to further divide the pockets, trying to integrate themselves into the consumer’s consciousness with just and respect for boundaries and laws,” the lawsuit said. It added that anthropomorphism “continues to publicly acknowledge that it trains its AL technology on Reddit content.”
When Gizmodo commented, a human spokesperson provided the following statement: “We disagree with Reddit’s claims and will vigorously defend ourselves.”
The war on the use of AI content has become one of the most prominent dilemmas in the industry. Platforms and artists realize that for AI fuel, their content is being stolen and they are launching the litigation machine to fight back. At this point, Openai is sued by many different people and agencies, and it is difficult to track it all – from prosecuted by Sarah Silverman, Ta-Nahisi Coates, George RR Martin and Jonathan Franzen, to the Investigation Center, to the Introduction Center, the Center for Exchange, including a wide variety of newspapers and the Chicago The Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago the Chicago Tribune, and some of yours you are all in you. The New York Times is currently suing the company for similar reasons.
Reddit attempts to isolate itself by establishing a contract with AI companies that clearly stipulate the exchange of currency content. Last February, Reddit reached a deal with Google that allowed the tech giant to use it as AI feed on its platform, as long as the company coughs $60 million a year. Not long after, Openai reached a similar deal. Humans don’t seem to get the memo, but certainly will now. More and more people seem to be a new model for the AI industry: to quote one of my favorite TV shows, and if you don’t want to be slammed by a lawsuit, you’ll have to pay the trolls. Obviously, this situation favors large companies. AI companies with resources will be able to purchase large amounts of access to data to fuel their AI habits. Smaller companies with smaller resources will be unfortunate.
